Preamble… I recently purchased a 2011 Macbook Pro. Not long after, I installed Ubuntu 11.04 Natty which came with a shiny new Unity desktop. I quickly noticed that while Unity supported my multitouch trackpad out of the box (Kudos Ubuntu team!), there was no way (at least that I could find) to configure the gestures…

As we started formulating our keyboard project, it quickly became apparent that we’d need a handful of circuit boards. Initially, it was my intention to order them from a site like batchpcb.com. Typically, circuit boards are printed in mass quantities, but when you need just one or two copies of a particular board, sites like…

When we began work on this project, we were planning on using an arduino at the heart. However, after some initial tests, we found that the arduino just wasn’t powerful enough to keep up with all of the processing that we wanted to do. A friend pointed us towards the propeller platform. While I wasn’t…

Greetings internet! This blog will serve as my build log for a project I recently dreamed up. I’ll be working on the project with a friend or three. The idea is simple: add a whole bunch of LEDs to a friend’s Korg Triton keyboard. Of course it wouldn’t be spectacular unless we tapped into the…

A friend of mine had a foot switch to change the settings on his guitar amp. However, the foot switch didn’t give him any indication of what the current settings were. I added a pair of LEDs to help with this issue. As usual, I forgot to take a “before” picture, but here is a…

I built a coffee table for my basement. Staining… Here is a picture of the final product with the glass installed. Underneath the glass, I build 96 boxes And inside each box I put LEDs lights. The different color LEDs in each box can be blended to produce millions of different colors. When the table’s…

I’m working on building a submerged HTPC. For the tank I settled on the Mini-bow 2.5 gallon tank. However, totally teal was not my prefered color. I quickly upgraded to black trimming. I also mounted a small green LED in the center of the top cover. I’ll likely use this as the HDD indicator LED.The…